Constantine A. Trypanis

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Constantine Athanasius Trypanis or Konstantinos Athanasios Trypanis , Greek Κωνσταντίνος Αθανάσιος Τρυπάνης (* 22. January 1909 in Chios ; † 18th January 1993 in Athens ) was a Greek Byzantinist , Classical philologist , Neogräzist and poets Greek and English as well as Greek Minister of Culture and Science.

Life

At his father's request, Trypanis began studying law in Athens, but then switched to classical philology and also studied in Berlin and Munich . After receiving his doctorate in 1937, he taught at the University of Athens from 1939 to 1945 . During the German occupation in World War II, he fought in the Chios regiment. His friendship with the literary critic George Katsimbalis goes back to this time . In 1947 Trypanis went to Oxford as assistant to John Mavrogordato , succeeding him in the same year as Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature and a Fellow of Exeter College . In 1968 he accepted a call to the chair of classics at the University of Chicago , but he was temporarily prevented from exercising it by the Greek military dictatorship by refusing a visa. After his retirement in 1974, he returned to Greece as Minister for Culture and Science (1974 to 1977) , appointed by Konstantinos Karamanlis . From 1981 to 1985 he was Secretary General of the Academy of Athens , of which he was President in 1986. In 1978 he was elected an honorary member of the British Academy .

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Trypanis worked in all epochs of Greek literature . His first book was a study of Theocritus in Greek, but his main philological work is the first critical edition of the Kontakia des Romanos, published together with Paul Maas .

His enthusiasm for poetry and the encounter with Katsimbalis also led Trypanis to his own poetic production, in his early days in Greek, later, also inspired by his friendship with Ian Fletcher and by poetic circles, in English. The main theme of his poems was ancient Greece and Rome.

Fonts

Text editions

  • Sancti Romani Melodi Cantica. Vol. 1: Cantica Genuina . - Vol. II: Cantica Dubia . Ed. V. Paul Maas u. Constantine A. Trypanis. Vol. 1: Oxford: Clarendon Press 1963, Vol. 2: Berlin: De Gruyter 1970.
  • (Ed.): Fourteen early Byzantine cantica. Graz, Vienna, Cologne: Böhlau 1968 (Viennese Byzantine Studies, Vol. 5)

Editions with translations

  • (Ed.): The Penguin Book of Greek Verse. Introduced and edited by CA Trypanis. With plain prose translations of each poem. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1971
  • (Eds.): Callimachus , Aetia, Iambi, Lyric Poems, Hecale, Minor epic and elegiac poems and other fragments . Text, translation and notes by CA Trypanis - Musaeus , Hero and Leander . Introduction, text and notes by Thomas Gelzer , with an English translation by Cedric Whitman. Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard UP 1958, reprinted with bibliographical addendum 1978 ( The Loeb classical library , 421)
  • (Ed.): Sophocles , The Three Theban Plays. Warminster: Aris & Phillips 1986, ISBN 0-85668-375-2

Monographs

Editorships

  • (Ed., With Theofanis G. Stavrou): Kostis Palamas - a portrait and an appreciation . Nostos Book, Minneapolis, Minn. 1985, ISBN 0-932963-00-5

Seals

  • Pedasus: Twenty-four Poems , 1955
  • The Stones of Troy , 1957
  • The Cocks of Hades , 1958
  • Pompeian Dog , 1964
  • Groves in the Wind , 1964
  • The Elegies of a Glass Adonis , 1967
  • The Glass Adonis , 1972
  • The Department of Special Collections of the University of Reading secures handwritten versions of unpublished poems and an unpublished play.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows: Constantine Trypanis. British Academy, accessed August 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Trypanis, Constantine A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trypanis, Constantine Athanasius; Trypanis, Konstantinos Athanasios; Τρυπάνης, Κωνσταντίνος Αθανάσιος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Byzantinist, Neo-Greekist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Chios
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1993
Place of death Athens